To the Editor:

It is not an unshared emotion to pull up to your house on Long Beach Island and feel a wave of happiness and calmness wash over you. That is what my husband and I have felt the last three years as homeowners – that is, until a holiday weekend last month.

We came up our drive to find our two-year-old holly stripped of its leaves and branches and more cutting of our very young holly, which we planted late November.

January 11, 2017